{"id":9419,"date":"2022-01-17T12:56:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T11:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=9419"},"modified":"2022-01-17T12:56:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T11:56:35","slug":"icu-sabbaticals-1981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/icu-sabbaticals-1981\/","title":{"rendered":"ICU Sabbaticals 1981"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>During most academic years STOIC would actively cover the ICU Elections. These became a very important part of their news events and of course included the famous live coverage of hustings and election results from the Great Hall. To assist people with finding out what was involved in these elections many different people came into the studio to talk to STOIC. Way back in January 1981 it was Liz Lindsay&#8217;s turn to be in front of the cameras. 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